8. Because of a high birthrate and considered immigration, the United States population in the late nineteenth A B C century increased tremendously from 31 million in 1860 to 76 million in 1900. D 9. For most of their history, especially since the 1860's, New York City has been undergoing major ethnic population changes. A B C D 10. Rocks have forming, weaning away and re-forming ever since the Earth took shape A B C D IV. READ THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOW. (1PTS) Television’s contribution to family life in the United States has been an equivocal c indeed, kept the members o f the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. Hy dominating the time families spend together, it destroys the special duality that distinguishes one family from
speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces — although there is danger there — as in the behavior it prevents : the talks, games, the family festivities, and arguments through which much of the child’s learning takes place and through which character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the proccss that transforms children into people.” O f course, families today still do spccial things together at tim e* go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take various trips and expeditions. But tker>rdinary daily life together is diminished — that sitting around at the dinner table, that spontaneous taking up of an activity, those little games invented by children on the spur o f the moment when there is nothing else to do, the scribbling, the chatting, the quarreling, all the things that form the fabric of a family, that define a childhood. Instead, the children have their regular schedule o f television programs and bedtime, and the parents have their peaceful dinner together. But surely the needs of adults are being better met than the needs o f children, who are effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome. If the family does not accumulate its backlog o f shared experiences, shared everyday experiences that occur and recur and change and i lien it is not likely to survive as anything other than a caretaking institution. 1. Which of the following
sents the author’s argument in the passage?
A. Television has negative effects on family life. B. Television has advantages and disadvantages for children. C. Television should be more educational.
A. dominating
B. time
C. television
3. Why is Urie Bronfenbrenner quoted in paragraph 2? A. To present a different point of view from that of the author B. To provide an example of a television program that is harmful C. To expand the author’s argument
D. quality
